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Teargas Poems - Poems about Teargas

MEMORIES OF WAR
...MEMORIES OF WAR In prison we turmoiled packed up cards to fall whilst they sucked genitals like bonbons a quartz on a table gleamed its knowing War torn ghettos with swollen stoma......

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Categories: teargas, 12th grade, character, conflict,
Form: Bio
At the Gbv Protest This Saturday
...Their hands raise with ours and for a moment we are all standing in perfect unity, every set of fingers curled in anger and defiance - and then they throw the tear gas. Which is rich, Because how......

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Categories: teargas, abuse, africa, anger, hurt,
Form: Free verse



Generation Gap
...Creation of a generation Generating anticipation Alterations of duration's While siting in frustration Looks of men as children Sticks and stones Breaking bones While throwing stones Fir......

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Categories: teargas, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Teargas From the Sky
... Some knew him, Some knew him not, We all knew him somehow; Nobody knew what he had become, What he had always been, Digital platforms were closed On towards evening And in the next ev......

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Categories: teargas, betrayal,
Form: Alexandrine
Life Is Life
...Life is a life Driving home I nearly hit a rabbit braked hard and the can of lager fell out of my hand. We country folk drinks a lot; the police never stop you unless you drive off the road and ......

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Categories: teargas, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Blank verse



Teargas Is Bottled Oxygen
...Teargas is bottled oxygen The genius who invented it should be sanctified as saint for bringing new form of air the ones who use it on duty are heartless angels of happiness they bring joy to......

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Categories: teargas, evil, power, satire,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Bulletproof
...Red and blue lights in the night A black and white drifting on rights Empty hearts galvanized Open palms weaponized Hope flushing down the drain Flooded by spits of acid rain Voices rise in mis......

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Categories: teargas, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
If This Is Freedom Take Me To Robinson Island
...If this is freedom take me to Robinson Island When shall we again sing the redemption songs? The strings of freedom are long forgotten in my nation Injustice is their system and we pledge to res......

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Categories: teargas, patriotic, political, , cute,
Form: Prose Poetry
Tomorrow, Where Are You
...Tomorrow where are you ? I am a child of mzansi, A child of a nation raised by a struggle of apartheid, as I emerge as a wound Meant to glister, advertising the anguish of my fore fathers Ra......

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Categories: teargas, africa,
Form: Free verse
Uncover a Soundtrack
...These footsteps are a dotted line A pulsating heartbeat on a timeline Your curiosity fills in the blank spots Guessing which stereotype‘s my blind spot You can plot a healthy graph from my boun......

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Categories: teargas, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Poet's Journey
...His musings in paper and ink have led him to the dungeons. Rusty iron bars, smell of rats, and cold wars surround him. His people see through their leaders, like water through the glass. Nothing......

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Categories: teargas, change, imagery, journey, passion,
Form: Narrative
16 Million Sticks of Dynamite
...For the chance to learn in plain English Be afforded equal opportunity to accomplish For a father to dream better for his son, how I wish For a people to destroy another’s culture, how selfish ......

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Categories: teargas, holiday, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
...When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said “I have a dream,” we all nodded and shouted sharing our feelings because his dream was the same as all those who lived under oppression. When he appeale......

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Categories: teargas, america, together, truth, usa,
Form: Verse
Mr Politician
...Where were you when i lived on gunshots and teargas, When the violence intensified and put fear on us, When the police brutality coasted me a friend and my face, When the eviction notice saw me pa......

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Categories: teargas, patriotic, peace, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Prolonged Stay In Power
...One day,I stood on the mountain Watching security forces using force to disperse demonstrators Who had gathered in the commercial capital___ Blocked off traffic to a large part of the city: To prote......

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Categories: teargas, fear, political, sympathy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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